Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi intervened in the ongoing controversy surrounding the Odisha Civil Services Examination 2025 notification.
The notification, issued recently by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC), had excluded vacancies in key cadres such as OAS and ORS, sparking discontent among aspirants.
After learning about the issue, the Chief Minister immediately ordered a review of vacant positions and directed that additional posts be filled. Consequently, the government requested OPSC to include 151 more posts across multiple services:
- Odisha Administrative Service (OAS): 14 posts
- Odisha Revenue Service (ORS): 113 posts
- Odisha Transport Service (OTS): 16 posts
- Odisha Welfare Service (OWS): 8 posts
This intervention ensures that many young aspirants will now have the opportunity to compete for these positions and secure success based on merit. The Chief Minister emphasised that the state government attaches the highest priority to employment generation. He highlighted that in the past 18 months, nearly 40,000 government posts have already been filled.
Majhi further instructed all departments to recommend filling every vacant post before the publication of examination notifications by various commissions.
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